Would you support legislation that requires all firearms transactions to go through a FFL?
My reason for supporting this is as follows,
Where have all the illegal guns in the hands of criminals come from?
What percentage of guns have been stolen from homes or gun shops?
What percentage have been bought and sold over and over again without the paper trail?
I sold a gun at a show here in FLA. Licensed CCW holder buys said gun and receipts signed by buyer and seller. Gun is used in a robbery in NJ.
How did this occur? Through the serial # and 4473 the sheriff is at my front door.
Just MY OPINION
Whats the thoughts of the members?

I believe that the government shouldn't contract that out to third parties. If they want to monitor and oversee the transaction in the same manner as the NICS check, that's fine, but not at the expense of paying a third party for their overhead, FFL aquisition, etc. It's one thing when that "fee" is part and parcel of a business transaction with the FFL holder, either as they wholesale and then retail the gun, or as an intermediary for someone else who does.

I have no intention of buying a gun at a gun show, not the least reason is to do so around here you have to be a member of the group that hosts the gunshow, and I'm not particularly impressed with the group. I have no doubt that if this were the case they would require using their FFL who would have a monopoly, and be able to set outrageously inflated fees. Additionally, I don't particularly like the level of information required for a 4473 form being in the hands of an FFL you don't "know" where they "live". When/If I buy one on the 'net and have it shipped to Local Gun Store, they have a brick and mortar location. I'm comfortable enough in knowing who/where they are if I end up with identity theft issues traceable to a 4473 form.

If, however, local law enforcement were required to do these checks for private buyers for the cost of the check, I have no issues.

I don't support the idea of going through FFL's or NICS for legal face to face purchases. I don't have to when I buy a car, furnace, stove, etc. I han even buy an axe or knife with no government interaction. Why should I endorse more government involvement?

FFL's are already required for in-state purchases on the basis that they MIGHT have been shipped interstate. There's a lot of dancing required to get there, but the Fed has gotten there before.

Even if they do want to follow the spirit AND the letter of the law, they can incentivize the States to enact a law requiring it, and throwing access open to state LEO's to do the check. He said legislation, not federal legislation. There are already locals that require some approximation of this.

FFL's are already required for in-state purchases on the basis that they MIGHT have been shipped interstate. There's a lot of dancing required to get there, but the Fed has gotten there before.

That's not at all the same thing.
Did you bother to read the link I posted above?

That's "the enemy" going to great lengths to justify how they can apply interstate commerce to any private intrastate gun sales.
They know that's going to be the single biggest hurdle for them to overcome.

I guess I have no quarrel with the NICS check per se, what bothers me about the whole scenario, and frankly I would have thought would bother the OP, is that the NICS call data may or may not be retained for an unspecified period of time, and the 4473 is retained forever, resulting in "The sherriff showing up at your door" weeks, months or even years later.

I don't believe there is, ever has been, or ever will be a legitimate law enforcement interest in any sort of tracking/registration/whatever.

Enforce, to the fullest, all the gun and violence laws we already allowed to be put on the books for ten years then come talk to me about what more is needed...

Until then, I am not for new gun laws...

Exactly.

We also have to recognize that such enforcement will require additional funding for both state and federal authorities, if they're actually going to be able to do this -- as well some serious negotiating to balance privacy rights and the public interest. Lack of funding and conflicting privacy laws are the main reasons many states currently don't report the basic info that's required for the current background check system, for example, to work the way it's supposed to.

But talking about taxes... negotiating in good faith... they're just not as sexy as pontificating about so-called "assault weapons," or the Constitution, or the way kids are drugged nowadays. No fun at all. Darn.

Aside from the really big one of interstate commerce, there's the smaller issue of participation. Not all otherwise law abiding citizens will participate, either through ignorance or otherwise.

A good example is California, since 1991(maybe 92?) they have required all transfers(very few exceptions) to go through FFLs, but there are still guns in the hands of criminals there. So either all the guns get stolen, or no matter what the rules some people don't know them or don't care about them even if they are otherwise law abiding.

No support here either….
So, you covered your self with a receipt. Paper trail on your end established.
"ultimately" You stop nothing…
"Straw purchases" That's one huge problem around here!!
I see it happen, I watch it, I know its going down and can't do a thing about it!!
You simply can't prove it.. And I Know more than likely you have seen it go down as well.

`(38) GUN SHOW VENDOR- The term `gun show vendor' means any person who exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges 1 or more firearms at a gun show, regardless of whether or not the person arranges with the gun show promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange 1 or more firearms.'.

By my reading of hte plain text of this paragraph, every person who takes a gun to a show, even if only to show it off, will be deemed a "gun show vendor."

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Would you support legislation that requires all firearms transactions to go through a FFL?

Yes, but only for nominal fee and with no registration.

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Where have all the illegal guns in the hands of criminals come from?

The answers are as varied as "where do all the crimnals come from?"

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What percentage of guns have been stolen from homes or gun shops?
What percentage have been bought and sold over and over again without the paper trail?

No one keeps track of this type information and doing so would be futile.

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Would you support legislation that requires all firearms transactions to go through a FFL?

No, why would I? Why does the government need to approve my use of my constitutional rights? It is not like my purchases are some march downtown some major city that requires blocking off streets and crowd controls...

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Where have all the illegal guns in the hands of criminals come from??

Not really my concern, I am not a law enforcement officer... I obey the laws and only concern myself with staying within the law... My off the cuff, un-researched guess would be theft from homes and cars...

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What percentage of guns have been stolen from homes or gun shops???

I would suggest that gun shops probably have less theft than you might think because hopefully the owner has take steps to reduce the risk... Bars on windows, cameras, alarm systems and open and concealed carry by employees. Still the root cause is a crime has been committed in the theft, not in the possession of the homeowner or business owner... Murders been outlawed for a long time, laws may reduce it to some degree but never end it, gun theft is much the same.

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What percentage have been bought and sold over and over again without the paper trail?

I think the better question is how do you propose to make any criminal follow the paper process you propose? By definition they wont.. Not being sarcastic but you will not modify criminal activity with a paper trail...

I applaud your concern for your fellow human beings but we already have too many freedom killing anti gun laws, rules and regulations... Enough is enough... We have to be able to expect adults to act as adults and when they break the law they need to be held to the punishments given... No one wants to pay for all the prisons and jails and no one want to exact the classical punishment of death for a felony... We have all these wants and because we as a people cant pull our britches up like big boys and girls and pay for and demand the appropriate punishments....

If our prisons were pure punishment, cold, hard work environments, we'd have a lot less repeat offenders... It is our very kindness to those that do us the most wrong as a society that leads to much of our repeat crime and our inability to deal with repeaters effectively.

If you want the source of all this crime, its ourselves in not exacting high tolls on those who commit the crimes and the glorification of crimes by our society. We don't need gun control, we need people to enforce the standards.

I would suggest that gun shops probably have less theft than you might think because hopefully the owner has take steps to reduce the risk... Bars on windows, cameras, alarm systems and open and concealed carry by employees. Still the root cause is a crime has been committed in the theft, not in the possession of the homeowner or business owner... Murders been outlawed for a long time, laws may reduce it to some degree but never end it, gun theft is much the same.

From a PBS news article of unknown reliability however it's not slanted in scope that I can tell.

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The report goes on to state that "over-the-counter purchases are not the only means by which guns reach the illegal market from FFLs" and reveals that 23,775 guns have been reported lost, missing or stolen from FFLs since September 13, 1994, when a new law took effect requiring dealers to report gun thefts within 48 hours. This makes the theft of 6,000 guns reported in the CIR/Frontline show "Hot Guns" only 25% of all cases reported to ATF in the past two and one-half years.

This study should go a long way towards answering some of that question. Basically Gun Shop and private home thefts aren't the most frequent way criminals get guns, but it's not a long shot for them either.. especially when they can just Steal from the LEO's

Would you support legislation that requires all firearms transactions to go through a FFL?

Sure, I'll concede that. Now here's what we want. National reciprocity with no exceptions (i.e. I want to be able to carry everywhere, NYC, Chicago, L.A., the works), and I want NFA gone, kaput. No registration of machine guns, SBRs, suppressors, etc. Treat them as any other firearm.

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